Here are a list of resources around the web that I find worth of keeping track of. Some are legitimately useful, and others are just fun or silly or interesting.

Table of Contents

• Posts I Liked
• Tools
  • IndieWeb
  • Cyber Security
  • Programming & OS Management
  • Misc
• Fun

Posts I Liked

A collection of specific blog posts from around the web that I liked. May or may not include justifications.

• Surfing the (Human-Made) Internet by Mike Grindle
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code - A guide on how to write real code.
• Everybody’s Free (To Write Websites) - A succinct essay on the virtue of writing websites.
• The Grug Brained Developer - Grug write manifesto telling other grugs good ways to stay sane in work place
• Use RSS to subscribe to a YouTube channel - A guide instructing how to use YouTube’s native RSS feed to follow channels.

Tools

IndieWeb

• IndieWebCamp - THE home page for the IndieWeb movement.
• IndieWebify.Me - A guide to setting up your site for success on the IndieWeb.
• Into to XFN - A guide on using the XHTML Friends Network. I use this to put those icons in front of my links!

Cyber Security

• RedirectChecker - A tool to check if and where a link redirects to. Not a 100% thorough check, but can be a good first-level check.
• Random User Agent - Provides a list of 10 random user-agents.
• User Agent Parser - Parses user agents to tell you what it can about where a request may have come from.
• DNSLog - An IP tracker that gives you a temporary subdomain to link requests to. Useful for network debugging.
• Emkei’s Mailer - A tool used for sending emails to and from any address. Current testing seems to indicate it’s no longer working, but keeping it here for prosperity’s sake.

Programming & OS Management

• Debuggex - A sort of debugger for regular expressions.
• ShellCheck - A really hand online tool and command-line utility to syntax check shell and bash scripts.
• Try It Online - Run code nearly any language online with links to share your code. Popular for Code Golfing.
• Esolang Wiki - A wiki of esoteric programming languages. I’m particularly fond of starfish!
• Tmux Cheat Sheet - A descriptive cheat-sheet of tmux commands.
• TSConfig Cheat Sheet - A cheat-sheet for setting up your tsconfig file.
• How To Mathematically Round a Number - If you’re ever working in a language that doesn’t/can’t access a round function, this is how you can do it with pure arithmetic.

Misc

• LibreTranslate - A FOSS text translation service
• Epoch to Time Zone Converter - Convert epoch timestamps into a readable datetime format.

Fun

• Parsing HTML With Regular Expressions - A helpful guide on how to parse HTML using regular expressions
• The Forest - A site to help yourself get lost in the wilds of the world wide web.
• TIC-80 - A complete fictitious computer with its own programming language. Very active community making retro styled games and demos.
• Ye Olde Blogroll - A large, curated list of personal blogs.
• No Hello (English) - Got somebody who frequently opens messages with “Hello”, and won’t continue the conversation until you reply? Just send them here!
• You Wouldn’t Edit A Meme - Editor to create your own variation of the classic “You wouldn’t download a car” meme.
• The 88x31 GIF Collection - A collection of hundreds of 88x31 pixel badges. Many of the ones in my footer are from here.